On January 18, 2022, Microsoft announced that it planned to buy Activision Blizzard King—the mega-publisher behind games like Call of Duty, World of Warcraft, and Candy Crush—in a deal worth nearly $70 billion. Since then it’s been quite a rollercoaster, as it feels like nearly every major country and corporation on Earth has in some
Image: Evan Amos / Kotaku / s_maria (Shutterstock) It’s the best-selling home video game console of all time. So yeah, the PlayStation 2 has some good games. But which of them are the best? We’ve put this list (which is not in any kind of order or ranking) together based on a couple of considerations.
I have a reverential dedication to Elden Ring that I normally reserve only for the worst reality TV you’ve ever seen—surprising, but after a year of playing and on the eve of Valentine’s Day, I’m starting to think that they’re not so different. Read more… Source link
Minare Koda from the Funimation anime Wave, Listen to Me! (which does not seem to be involved in voices used without consent at this time) belting out the greatest line read you’ve ever heard. Voice actors within the video game, cartoon, and anime industries have come out against the use of AI websites that copy
If you watched the latest trailer for The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom you might have been shocked to hear what sounds like Ganon talking, marveled at Link’s new powers, or completely lost it when you saw him riding a magical lawnmower. Some fans, however, are losing it over a blurry screenshot that
Screenshot: Nintendo / Kotaku Metroid Prime Remastered has been out for less than a week, and players are praising how well the Nintendo Switch version holds up to the original. There’s a major difference, though: The developers who worked on Metroid Prime for the GameCube have had their names left off the credits screen. And
Image: Dall-E 2 No matter where you sit on the enormous and complex debate regarding AI models and their use of datasets to generate new images, artworks, writing and even movies, there’s one thing everyone can agree on: they’re damned creepy at drawing human hands. But why? Especially when AIs are so capable of recreating
Look, you probably saw the show and noticed it straight anyway regardless, but just in case you didn’t, here are a bunch of people all making the same joke: that Rihanna’s halftime performance at the Super Bowl tonight looked just like a Smash Bros. stage. To be fair, it’s not really a joke. More a
Image: EA Sports Programming and gameplay be damned, sports games live and die on their licensing. It’s why Madden was able to crush NFL2K, and it’s why EA’s FIFA (now known as EA Sports FC) has been able to grind Konami’s PES into the dust. Not because they’re better games, but because they paid to